An Ornate Ewer [recto]

Sir David Wilkie

Artist, Scottish, 1785 - 1841

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William B. O'Neal

  • Dimensions

    overall: 13.4 x 10.3 cm (5 1/4 x 4 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.52.205.a

Associated Artworks

Study of a Mother and Child [verso]

Sir David Wilkie

1785


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mrs. N.C. Butler; (Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., London); purchased by William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, 1968-1994; gift to NGA, 1995.
Mrs. N.C. Butler was a descendant of a friend of the artist's (according to O'Neal records).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1973

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of William B. O'Neal, Walter Cecil Rawls Museum, Courtland, VA and tour, 1973-1975.

1975

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of William B. O'Neal, Virginia Museum Downtown Gallery, F&M Center, Charlottesville, 1975: no. 29.

Bibliography

1975

  • "Drawings for Theater and Architecture: A Special View of a Noted Virginia Collection of Master Drawings," Arts in Virginia, 15 (Spring 1975), 2.

1993

  • NGA O'Neal 1993, checklist 249 (Ewer), 253 (Lock), 254 (Lock).

Watermarks

C W / 18 (partial watermark)

Wikidata ID

Q64631776


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